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Internet pricing and speed varies wildly across the world. The US, for instance, currently ranks 15th in speed but enjoys reasonably priced internet access.

How reasonably priced? If you’re a US citizen you likely have an average internet access speed of 4.8 mbps and you pay a little over $3 per mbps. If you’re in Sweden, however, you likely have an 18 mbps connection and you pay a scant 63 cents per mpbs. The real envy of the internet speed Olympics by far is Japan with a mighty 61 mbps at a mere 27 cents per mbps.

Hit up the link below for the full infographic (or use this local mirror if you need to dodge a firewall), then sound off in the comments with how you compare on the international scale.

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I live in South Korea and my internet speed is 100Mbps. Actually, I can download 1GB data in 2 minutes. I pay $20 for monthly subscription fee.

When I was staying in Europe, it was very inconvenient for me because the internet speed was slow and connection was very unstable. If it were South Korea, ISPs would have lost all of their customers. No offense. It’s true here. Korean ISPs even provide a free home appliance such as vacuum cleaner not to lose their customers.

i pay $45 for 512k because I live in an area where only 1 ISP exists, and they know it so they jack the prices up. Thanks Garden Valley. http://gvtel.net

While their website boasts up to 10 meg. We can’t actually get it because fiber is scheduled for install in 2016… which doesn’t matter anyway because they are so oversubscribed that even the 1mb lines never exceed 25% of it’s total capacity except when testing on their internal bandwith test server.

Hey Guys…I’m from South Africa and I pay 950 Rand a month for 4mbps! In USD thats about 135 dollars! That’s expensive compared to what other countries have! I feel like I’m getting ripped off big time!!!
JAPAN!! DAMN!

all this crap speed and high costs for internet and the companys that have the power to sort this are the same companys that want us to buy online big companys sort your act out give us what we want and surely you will get the sales you want too real internet access and speed real online sales

In Northwest Georgia (U.S.A.) I pay Comcast $25/mo for an advertised 1.5 Mb/s and experience actual download speeds ranging between 25 Kb/s and up to 175 Kb/s. WAAAAYYYY higher cost/Mb than your survey shows as average cost/Mb in U.S. I used to pay $40 for an advertised 6 Mb/s which is still $6.67/Mb/s. I think the $3.33/Mb average cost in U.S. as shown in the accompaning map is ridiculously inaccurate.

What’s up with the US? We keep claiming we’re the “greatest country in the world,” but we’re just scraping by on the middle of the list on so many things, not just internet service. That’s great hype for companies selling cut-rate wares for twice the price, but if you’re a US consumer who’s believing it, well, at least you can smile through your rose-colored glasses while you’re getting ripped off, I guess.

Latvia (East-Europe (Baltic States)) with best bandwidth in Europe (according to speedtest.net) is not even listed :/
Anyway, my internet speed, living in Latvia is 100/100 mbps and I pay roughly 22 $ a month. But fastest speeds here reach up to 580/70 Mbps and costs around 120 $

But now to the official press information I found: people here pay for internet anywhere from 20-30 $ and speeds according to speedtest are 25,83 Mbps average. That brings us to conclusion that we pay roughly 1.9 USD for 1 Mbps if I did the math right (+/- because I changed currency to USD).

I use Verizon Mobile Broadband and pay $30 for 5g at 1.4MBPS (unlimited data on my phone). Actual download speed .6 to 1MBPS. Pretty impressive due to the fact I’m in the mountains of New Mexico where even Verizon says it doesn’t have 3G service. The only other option is 56 KBPS for 39.99 and they don’t even get close to that speed.

There was time we have unlimited data traffic with 256 kbps speed.
Now net speeds growing up 8 mbps or 16 mbps or even higher but we also have fair usage policy cannot over use from 15 gb. thats wierd here is turkiye

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